{"id":6579,"date":"2025-12-29T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:29:14","slug":"android-16-qpr1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2025\/12\/android-16-qpr1\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 16 QPR1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Android 16 QPR1 in the flavour of crDroid 12.5, was released on 28 Dec for Poco X3 (surya)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I waited a day for negative reports before upgrading my phone. After reboot, the gestures are not working. Previously, I had the option to turn on on-screen buttons, which is no longer visible. Now, I have no navigation controls. The app that saved me was Button Savior.  I was using it to replace my physical buttons. Some screen pop-ups were saying, Pixel Launcher is not responding. The Telegram support group recommends disabling the Pixel Launcher. Google returned the following script. Reminder to self, don&#8217;t try to run wireless ADB without navigation controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><code>adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable the launcher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>adb shell pm enable com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnordig.de\/til\/Android\/disable-pixel-launcher.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fnordig.de\/til\/Android\/disable-pixel-launcher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, I can see different style volume sliders. The rest of the Android 16 goodness needs to be discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30 Dec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disabling the Pixel Launcher did not help.  I need to totally remove it.  The only way to do this is a fresh install.   I wonder if it is possible to use ADB delete.  Something to try during the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>31 Dec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I backed up the phone and formatted everything. Surprise, surprise on the next boot, Pixel Launcher kept displaying Application Not Responding. Even without Google Apps flashed! A Telegram user theorized that my recovery is not wiping data properly. I switched from PBRP to Orangefox Recovery with the same result. Another user offered a gem, disable the backup in the flashing script. Voila! Pixel Launcher error never appeared and I get my navigation controls back!!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference between stock Android 16 and QPR1 is mainly visual. As such I have hard time telling the difference between  crDroid&#8217;s and Android 16 QPR1&#8217;s enhancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TLDR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pixel Launcher is interfering with navigation.  Use Recovery to do a clean flash.  Otherwise, disable the backup in the flashing script. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 16 QPR1 in the flavour of crDroid 12.5, was released on 28 Dec for Poco X3 (surya)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,614,613,553],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-android16","tag-crdroid","tag-pocox3nfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}